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Page 10/The Battalion/Monday, September 19, 1983 EPA may ban pesticide United Press International . LITTLE ROCK — The En vironmental Protection Agency may seek a ban on the chemical EDB or ethylene dibromide — widely used as a fumigant in soil, fruits, vegetables and stored grains — because it has contamin ated groundwater, the Arkansas Gazette reported Sunday. The federal government has had evidence since the 1970s that EDB poses an extraordinarily high cancer risk to workers who handle it, and traces of the che mical have showed up in human food supplies. Virtually all EDB, which is used in pesticides and as an anti knock gasoline additive, is manu factured by three southern Arkan sas plants — Dow Chemical Co. and Ethyl Corp. in Magnolia and Great Lakes Chemical Co. in El Dorado. Pressure from the citrus indus try apparently stopped a ban on EDB that had been planned by the EPA this year, according to documents obtained by the Gazet te in Washington. In correspondence with Rep. Andy Ireland, D-Fla., former EPA assistant Administrator John Todhunter said a proposed “phase-out” of the chemical in mid-1983 would be “carefully re evaluated” in light of industry con cerns. A letter from Ireland reminded Todhunter of an “unofficial” promise during a meeting that “the immediate ban in 1983 of EDB will not take place, and we will now be discussing plans for 1985 at the earliest.” Labor unions have criticized the Occupational Health and Safe ty Administration for knuckling under to similar pressure and ignoring EDB’s threat to workers. But an EPA spokesman said last week a ban may be sought by the end of September because of re ports this summer that EDB has contaminated underground water wells in Florida, California, Geor gia and Hawaii. Evidence has been mounting since 1974 that EDB is a potent cancer-causing agent and could also cause gene mutation, sterility and birth defects. Several studies place the risk of cancer at more than 99 percent for workers who are regularly exposed to EDB. One study says the risk could be as low as 7 to 10 percent. The National Institute for Occu pational Safety and Health has issued regular “alerts” about EDB since 1975. It estimates that “sev eral hundred” of every 1,000 EDB workers exposed to the legal limit of 20 parts per million will die of Scientists caution, however, that the cancer studies are projec tions based on reactions in labora tory animals. A spokesman for the Florida cit rus industry said EDB is the only effective protection against post harvest fruit fly infestation. Woman gets money but no match GOSPEL MEETING COME AND HEAR THE WORD OF GOD PROCLAIMED BY ARDIE BROWN of Port Neches, Texas United Press International HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A finicky woman will get back the 3250 she paid a matchmaking firm that failed to find three Jewish gentlemen who met her exacting specifications, a judge has ruled. Mildred Rosenstein, 59, said she asked Jewish Introduction Inc. to find a marriageable man w ho was “knowledgeable, consid erate, understanding and cul tured. She also wanted prospective suitors to be non-smokers be tween 60 and 70 years old who were generous and sympathetic and “assertive without being obnoxious. "She might be an extremely difficult person to please. What she’s looking for might be impossi ble to satisfy, but you did agree to the contract," Broward County Circuit Judge Morton L. Abram ruled Mond a y. "The contract just wasn’t performed. Ms. Rosenstein dated one man she met through the service, but it didn’t work out. Abram ordered the matchmak ing firm to return 8250 Ms. Rosen stein paid in April 1982 and to reimburse her court costs. "I think he was very fair and wise. Ms. Rosenstein said of the judge’s decision. Btti Arkansas Si Lacewell, look to go home, an Indians game a up between t\ ;caliber. He refused t Jo Texas A&M 1 ^victory. 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